Brett Whiteley (1939 - 1992)

Bird on a branch, 1977

sugarlift aquatint on paper

43.0 x 75.0 cm (image)
68.5 x 78.5 cm (sheet)
72.5 x 100.5 cm (frame)

edition: AP aside from an edition of 60 with 8–10 APs
signed and numbered below image
stamped with studio stamp lower right: BW

Private collection, Perth, acquired in the 1980s

Brett Whiteley, Recent Painting and Drawings, Fischer Fine Art, London, September 1977, cat. 76 (another example, as ‘Bird on Branch’)

Mandy, R., Brett Whiteley: The Complete Graphics, 1961 – 1982, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1983, cat. 29, p. 27 (illus., another example)
Deutscher, C., Brett Whiteley The Graphics 1961 – 1992, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 1995, cat. 44, p. 52 (illus., another example)
Sutherland, K., Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné, Schwartz Publishing, Melbourne, 2020, cat. 87P, vol. 3, p. 442 (illus. another example), vol. 5, p. 92 (illus., another example), vol. 7, p. 824